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squint: see strabismus strabismus (strəbĭz`məs) ..... Click the link for more information. . strabismusor squint or heterotropiaFailure of the eyes to align properly to focus on an object. The affected eye may deviate in any direction, including inward (cross-eye) or outward (walleye). Problems with photoreception or the nerves that relay images to the brain cause a constant degree of deviation (comitant); defects in the nerves that control the muscles that move the eyes cause deviation that varies with the direction of gaze (noncomitant). Both types impede development of a child's ability to focus the eyes and merge images from the two retinas into one (fusional reflex). The brain suppresses the image from the deviant eye, which may become functionally blind. Treatment may involve exercises to strengthen the weak eye or surgery or both. squint 1. the nontechnical name for strabismus 2. a narrow oblique opening in a wall or pillar of a church to permit a view of the main altar from a side aisle or transept 3. having a squint How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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As a journalist, I regularly negotiate the phalanx of security contraptions and squint-eyed officers posted at the entrance to every public building in Los Angeles. I marched up to the porch, where a squint-eyed man asked, from around the cigar he was roughly smoking, if there was something he could help me with. I don't have space to tell you about Mason and Dixon smoking dope with George Washington and his black-Jewish-slave-standup-comic Gershom; or about Ben Franklin, or Samuel Johnson, or the cameo performance by an unnamed Thomas Jefferson; or the performing electric eel Felipe; or Fang the talking dog or the robot Duck who wants to learn about sex; or the squint-eyed, large-forearmed, pipe-smoking sailor who translates God's eyeh asher eyeh into "I am that which I am. |
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